Ways of representing place
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- Created on: 26-05-19 13:11
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- 2.b Places are represented through a variety of contrasting formal and informal agencies
- Informal representations of place
- TV
- Soaps represent places through the lives of local people. These programmes build up strong fictional representations of places.
- Film
- Offering sounds as well as sights. The lens of the camera can give wide-angled views of places perhaps showing their geographical context. It can also zoom on the detail of a place
- TV
- Soaps represent places through the lives of local people. These programmes build up strong fictional representations of places.
- TV
- Films rely on their representation of place to tell their story to the viewer. Both fictional and real places play important roles in films and sometimes the two are combined.
- Offering sounds as well as sights. The lens of the camera can give wide-angled views of places perhaps showing their geographical context. It can also zoom on the detail of a place
- Music
- Art
- Photography
- Literature
- Graffiti
- Blogs
- TV
- Formal and statistical representations of a place
- Census data
- First census in England and Wales was in 1801
- Census completed every 10 years
- Initially the simple counting of heads, over time the census has become increasingly more sophisticated
- Today it includes personal information such as date of birth, gender, educational qualifications, ethnicity, religion, health, welfare, housing and employment
- Up-to-date census data are essential elements for government planning and the allocation of resources to areas such as schools, health care facilities and housing
- Geospatial data
- Creates questions as to where boundaries were boundaries should be drawn. Eg. a village surround by agricultural land and looking in every part like a typical rural settlement may be inhibited by a majority of people who work, shop and spend their leisure time outside the village
- The census may record this as rural. But do the residents think of themselves as rural dwellers? and do others see this place as rural
- Creates questions as to where boundaries were boundaries should be drawn. Eg. a village surround by agricultural land and looking in every part like a typical rural settlement may be inhibited by a majority of people who work, shop and spend their leisure time outside the village
- Representing rural places
- Characteristics that distinguish rural places from urban places
- Closely knit, supportive community where everyone knows everyone
- More conservative and traditional in views
- More homogenous ethnically
- Less mobility, both spatially and socially
- Characteristics that distinguish rural places from urban places
- Census data
- Informal representations of place
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